Whenever I try to chart a course between the “Iraq would have been great if we’d just had smarter people in charge of…

A few months ago, it was the received wisdom that Iraq was in the midst of a rapidly escalating civil war. That claim is…

Fukuyama actually makes some sense about Russia: What the West needs to do is watch Russia’s actual behavior, and not project onto…

John Warner’s recent relatively outspoken stances on Iraq are evidently not the result of worries about his chances for re-election next year, as…

And the fact is that the neocon crowd that took far too easily the helm of the foreign policy establishment away from the realist…

Strange but true: the Stars and Bars adorn this Pakistani fruit-seller’s stand (via Cliopatria).  What’s Urdu for Deo Vindice?